Our "Lovable Labradoodle" just bit and drew blood on 11 yr old DS...

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Taking puppy out for a walk (12 weeks) and he jumped up and bit his leg. He's quite smitten with trousers, hanging down stuff like dressing gowns, dresses etc and wants to bite them and play tug of war. NB. We do NOT play any tug of war games with him. Sometimes he lets go when we say LEAVE IT or NO but no matter how we try to distract him with proper chew toys, he won't leg go of things he is not supposed to bite.

We brought him straight back from walk and crated him for 15 mins. About to go out again now.

Any other useful advice on how we deal with this please?

CTOFN - soryy

Slubber - thanks for that. Percy loves his Kong too. May well put some of his food in that because he doesn't particularly like eating his food from the bowl. Changed bowl because we thought he was scared of the old stainless steel one! But tbh, not a lot of difference. However, if we put the food on the floor or hand feed him, he devours it . Trying not to do that though.

It's really confusing this puppy owning lark and knowing what the best approaches to follow are. Before I got the puppy I overdosed on books from the library, each one written by a dog 'expert' said to do things slightly differently. was a bit of an understatement!

I was advised on here to get The Culture Clash (as well as the Idiot's Guide to Positive Dog Training), both are really good and have really helped me to understand my puppy and the principles of positive training.

Patience is really what is needed. Just keep doing the same things over and over. Rewarding all the good stuff and ignoring the behaviours you want to extinguish. I have such a long way to go but on the whole am really enjoying the process, particularly as getting angry with my dog and punishing her are counterproductive. Makes life so much nicer for all involved.

Hi,
we have a labradoodle and he was doing exactly the same thing. He is getting better as he is growing but is still jumping up. I have had puppies before (belgian shepherds) and although their teeth were sharp they were not in the same leaque as our labradoodles. With the belgians the teeth were also like needles but straight meaning straight in straigh out. Our doodles teeth curl back round on themselves so when he jumps and 'mouths' at you it hooks into your clothes etc and make it seem that he is worse than other puppies - he is not, i believe this is possibly a trait of the labradoodle. Be careful. My brother is very used to dogs but he still got caught on the nose and he had a nasty cut on his nose which wouldnt stop bleeding and had to go to casualty. i felt terrible. (no lasting damage thankfully) im hoping his new adult teeth will grow staighter so he wont be so lethal i have a 2 year old and realised after this that i must have zero tolerance at all times and have had ever since. This has worked, each time he has tried to bite i have come down like a ton of bricks at him, he needs reminding but this has been the only way for me. He is 5 1/2 months old now. if he does it indoors he goes straight into his crate, i agree with the other poster there is no point in doing this unless it is immediately after your dog has done it.

re prev...

i also meant to say - dont go too overboard with the telling off... i agree with the poster before me - if you do and he is like ours...he will get worse... he is a stubborn little thing, and needs a reassuring cuddle afterwards, i just lower my voice to an almost growl and say No biting, and then put him in his cage.

I haven't read the whole thread, just the first two pages and last wto posts, but having read it it is no suprise so many dogs end up with behavioural problesm when dog owners don't even bother to understand the basics of dog behaviour or training.

Biting IS normal behaviour for a puppy (as I believe was established earlier in the thread). The following article explains why and why it is actually important they DO bite. It also explains how to deal with it successfully, and guess what, no hitting, shouting or crating for punsihment needed...

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www.cockersonline.co.uk/discuss/index.php?topic=64170.0

hi i have just got a 6 week old puppy and he lunges at our face's all of the time so i just give a NO and move him don't look at him or talk to him just move him somewhere else then he comes crawling back and snuggle's in nit sure if it's working tho 😑

Hi @Haylz you'll get a better response if you repost in the Doghouse section - there's a puppy survival thread there